How Your Donation Helps

Founded in 2009, the Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health is solely dedicated to raising funds to support the strategic priorities of Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences.

Every dollar counts. Ontario Shores provides life-changing treatment for those struggling with the devastating impact of mental illness. With your contribution, you will help us bring discovery, recovery and hope to our patients, their loved ones and our communities who are relying on us to make a difference.

Here are some of the ways your donation will help:

Discovery

With a dedicated focus on research and innovation, you can help us continue to lead the way in the development of new advances for the treatment of mental illness. With groundbreaking research we can change the way mental health care is understood, diagnosed and treated.

Recovery

Those we support benefit from a recovery-oriented environment of care built on compassion, inspiration and hope. Highly skilled healthcare leaders work in collaboration with patients and families on individualized care plans that treat their mental, physical and emotional well-being.

Hope

Each of us deserves to live in a society that is free from stigma. You can be a leading voice in the collective efforts of patients, professionals, policy makers, businesses and communities to raise awareness about mental illness, eliminate stigma and ultimately create hope for individuals and families. Together we can share that help is available and a brighter future is possible.

You can help address mental health issues on local, provincial and national levels.

Join us on this journey as we create discovery, recovery and hope for all those in our communities who are living with the devastating impact of mental illness.

What Tomorrow Could Look Like

Meet Utaya.
He’s successful rebuilding his life, while an outpatient at Ontario Shores.
Once an inpatient, Utaya was diagnosed with Schizophrenia more than a decade ago.
Since then, he’s learned about...

~Utaya

We have Rhonda.
As a mother, Rhonda had been going through a difficult time trying to understand and handle her daughter’s illnesses.
On top of that, her daughter’s life was very out of control: drugs...

~Rhonda

If you were to meet Jessica today, she’s confident and positive about where she is in life.
It took years of hard work and the right place to bring her to this point in her recovery journey.
In her...

~Jessica

“It changed my life and it changed my son’s life.” Rima tells the story of her son Shadi’s time as an inpatient at Ontario Shores.
It began with a severe intracranial hemorrhage caused by an...